by Peter D. Ward · Copernicus · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780387985725
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«The Call of Distant Mammoths» is Peter D. Ward's essay on mass extinctions, published by Copernicus in paperback (241 pages, in English).
The book examines why mammoths and other Ice Age mammals disappeared, framing them within other mass extinctions. Ward describes the comet that killed the dinosaurs and argues that mass extinctions result from unique catastrophes, not gradual processes; in the Americas, he points to human hunting over climate change.
The full subtitle is «Why the Ice Age Mammals Disappeared». Reprint of the original 1997 edition.
For the general reader interested in paleontology and the history of life, with clear explanations of complex concepts.
Peter Douglas Ward is an American paleontologist and professor at the University of Washington, Seattle, and Sprigg Institute of Geobiology at the University of Adelaide. He is also an adviser to the Microbes Mind Forum. In 2000, along with his co-author Donald E. Brownlee, he co-originated the term Rare Earth and developed the Medea hypothesis alleging that multicellular life is ultimately self-destructive.
